Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-06-24
LOCAL BREYITIES.

There were no arrests made by the POI.
. yesterday.
The pay-car is expected to arrive her.
this evening.
The Devils Auction troupe laid oyel
here yesterday, and will leave for Stockton
this morning.
An entertainment and social will be
given at Calvary Baptist Church this even
ing by the Silver Star Society, presenting a
fine programme.
The following counties have made set.
Elements with the State Treasurer this
week: Santa Cruz, $2,56S 81; Napa, &c.
296 O6; Suffer, 81 1926 As; Mono, 81 ,203 60 !;
Marlposa, 1886.
| There will be an entertainment and
social at the Fourteenth-street Presbyterian
Church, between o and P, this evening.
An interesting programme of literary and
musical exercises is promised.
Purcell, the amateur pitcher who occu-
| pied the box for the Atlas in their game
with the Pioneers last Sunday, has signed
with the GREENWOOD & Morans, He will
have troublesome time filling Van
Haltrens place.
| The average Signal Service temperature
yesterday was 71.7o, being $50 warmer
than the normal temperature for that day.
The highest and lowest temperature was
800 and $50, with fresh to gentle southerly
| winds and clear weather.
The Capital City band, P. Spargo. leader,
gave an open-air concert at Seventeenth
and \ streets last evening, at which
splendid programme was rendered These
open-alr concerts in that portion of the
city are becoming quite popular, are
pleasing and well attended.
The water in China slough has fallen
about two feet recently, being drained
through the drainage pipe into the river.
The warm weather appears to have caused
the death of many fish in the slough. and
they are floating upon the surface, their
odor calling loudly for the Health Officer.
A dispatch from Los Angeles. dated the
22d instant, says: at is learned that Mrs.
Robert Wilson, whose elopement from
Santa Barbara to Join young society man
here was telegraphed to the Chronicle, was
from Sacramento, where she and her hus-
band lived till few weeks ago. then going
to Santa Barbara"
AT meeting of the Sacramento branch
OF the Catholic Mutual Benevolent Asso-
cation, held Wednesday evening, James
Riley was elected Director, and Mary ].
Magill and J. H. Parkinson surgeons. The
Rev. J. B. McNally, of West Oakland, was
not present on account of death, by
drowning, in his parish.
Sergeant Barwick received information
yesterday from the Chief Signal Officer
General Greedy, that owing to the fact that
the last Congress did not pass the def
cheney appropriation bill, all Signal
Service men (50O) would get but half nav
for June. Congress will be asked next
winter to pass deficiency bill to reimburse
the Signal men for pay they ought never
to have been kept out of.
Last evening Washington Lodge. No. 20.
+. and A. NJ, W. E. Gerber, w. NJ, held a
special meeting, which was largely attended
by the brethren of the mystic tie. County
Auditor J.. II. Miller was the central figure,
and at the closing of the raising" exer-
clses, at his invitation, all repaired to the
banquet room where they were royalty en-
tertalned. The banquet spread was one of
unusual excellence. The toasts and after
dinner speeches lasted until late hour.
The other day wholesale merchant was
observed packing California wine in pork
barrel, and was asked why that stvle of
package was preferred. The merchant
stated that some Eastern excursionists
were so pleased with the wine while on a
visit to the coast recently that they ordered
some of it on their return home Unfor-
tunately they reside in prohibition town
in Kansas, and considered a pork barrel
the best means of getting the wine to their
premises.
A man OF good appearance, named
Charles Basler, applied at the station
house about A. NJ. yesterday for lodging
and surgical assistance. He stated that he
left San Francisco to seek employment,
made his way to Stockton, and started
from there on foot toward Sacramento
hoping to get work on some ranch While
walking on the railroad track, about three
stations from this city, as he expresses it,
he fell through the trestlework, suffering
severe bruises and an injury to his shout |
der, which he thought included fracture.
A freight train coming along, he told the
conductor of his injury, ana was kindly
given a ride to Sacramento.